HTTP URL Address Encoding in Java

Question

My Java standalone application gets a URL (which points to a file) from the user and I need to hit it and download it. The problem I am facing is that I am not able to encod

Answer 1

I read the previous answers to write my own method because I could not have something properly working using the solution of the previous answers, it looks good for me but if you can find URL that does not work with this, please let me know.

public static URL convertToURLEscapingIllegalCharacters(String toEscape) throws MalformedURLException, URISyntaxException {
            URL url = new URL(toEscape);
            URI uri = new URI(url.getProtocol(), url.getUserInfo(), url.getHost(), url.getPort(), url.getPath(), url.getQuery(), url.getRef());
            //if a % is included in the toEscape string, it will be re-encoded to %25 and we don't want re-encoding, just encoding
            return new URL(uri.toString().replace("%25", "%"));
}